Ellen Page's New Documentary Shows What It's Like to Be LGBT All Over the World

It's one of the most important things you'll watch this year.

"If you think that you live in a part of the world where there aren't gay people, you're wrong," begins the trailer for Ellen Page's new show, Gaycation. It features Ellen and her best friend Ian Daniel as they travel the world visiting LGBT communities to explore what queer culture looks like around the globe. The show is set to premiere March 2nd on Vice's upcoming stand-alone channel Viceland.

You probably remember Ellen's epic coming out speech back in 2014. Since then, she's been one of the most recognizable faces of young LGBT Hollywood. In the series, she'll show us firsthand that sadly, being LGBT is still a major — and even life-threatening — issue to many around the world, some of whom are completely cast out from their families or communities. One particularly harrowing clip from the trailer features a young man with acid burn scars on his chest.

Ellen also goes head-to-head with Ted Cruz at the Iowa State Fair, stating that she feels it "doesn't sound very American" to be fired from a job on the basis of your sexuality, and then goes on to explain the lack of logic behind the idea that being gay is a choice. "The amount of people that struggle so much because of the shame they feel or the fear of being oppressed or hurt or killed. Why would someone make that choice?"

We also see her visiting places such as Brazil, Jamaica, and Tokyo, admitting that she was "too closeted" to ever visit the gay districts of those areas prior. "At the end of the day, we hope to expand people’s minds and their hearts," she and Ian told BuzzFeed. "I don’t know if that sounds cheesy but it’s just that simple."